The rise of "dopamine sites": fake food delivery and shopping apps that satisfy cravings without spending a cent
Researchers say the trend satisfies a need for instant gratification in uncertain times
Europe fines Temu $232 million over illegal and unsafe product listings
Temu violated the Digital Service Act, and could face multiple fines in a row
CrystalDiskInfo update adds fake Samsung SSD detection
CrystalDiskInfo 9.9.0 adds a new feature to help users spot counterfeit Samsung SSDs, an increasingly common problem as fake high-end drives are becoming more convincing. The utility can flag suspicious drives by checking hardware identifiers and firmware data.
Amazon customer buys Pragmata for Switch 2, receives fake card that damages console
Another fake product slips through Amazon Warehouse
US arrests OnlyFake operator accused of selling over 10,000 AI-generated digital fake IDs
The Ukrainian national could face up to 15 years behind bars
Fake faces generated by AI are now "too good to be true," researchers warn
Also: People tend to overestimate their face recognition ability
The takeaway: The ability of AI models to produce convincing, human-like images has gone too far. A new study suggests that detecting AI-generated faces is now too difficult for most people. Even more concerning, so-called "super recognizers" perform only marginally better. The visual clues that once exposed AI-generated images are becoming increasingly difficult to spot, though they have not disappeared entirely.
Fake Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are becoming harder to detect as storage prices soar
Counterfeit drive fooled Windows until Samsung's own tool caught it
Education report promoting AI ethics under fire for fake sources, possible AI misuse
After 18 months of work, Canadian report questioned over fabricated references
That viral lifetime Starlink offer on Facebook is a total scam
If it's too good to be true, it probably is
Think you can tell a fake image from a real one? Microsoft's quiz will test you
In a test of 287,000 images, humans got it right only 63% of the time
Arma 3 and War Thunder clips are being passed off as real airstrike footage in the Iran - Israel conflict
Would you be fooled?
Facepalm: It seems that wherever there is war in the world, there will also be clips of video games that people claim are real footage. Once again, this form of propaganda involves old favorites Arma 3 and War Thunder, with the Middle East conflict helping increase the spread.
Repair technician finds three of four RTX 4090s were fakes packing RTX 3000-series GPUs
Not the first time we've seen this scam
YouTube cracks down harder on fake movie trailer channels with new demonetizations
Don't expect a lot of sympathy
Fake MSRP: AMD's Radeon 9070 XT $600 Launch Price Was a Fantasy
Two months after launch, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is still nowhere near its advertised $600 price. With global supply stabilizing, it's time to examine the real cost of AMD's top GPU across key markets.
HP agrees to $4 million settlement over inflated PC prices on its website
Similar lawsuits have been filed against other major retailers
YouTube demonetizes fake movie trailer channels after investigation
YouTube is no longer turning a blind eye
Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU
It came directly from Amazon and arrived in a sealed box
WTF?! It appears that Amazon still sells the occasional CPU that turns out to be a fake. The latest incident involved a Ryzen 7 9800X3D ordered by a reviewer for a test system that was actually an AMD FX-4100 CPU from 2011.
Study on medical data finds AI models can easily spread misinformation, even with minimal false input
Even 0.001% false data can disrupt the accuracy of large language models
"Goodbye Meta AI" message is a hoax, yet hundreds of thousands have fallen for it
When will people learn?
Retro gaming crime ring busted in Italy, seizing 12,000 fake consoles
Facepalm: Retro gaming has become a lucrative market, with companies repackaging old titles as new experiences. However, criminals are also taking advantage of the retro appeal, flooding the market with cheap, counterfeit replicas of "official" consoles pre-loaded with classic, emulated games.
ElevenLabs, whose tech was used for the fake Biden robocalls, partners with AI detection company
A mutually beneficial deal with no financial component
Why you should be suspicious of that verified Amazon customer review
There's a good chance someone was paid to write it
Meta deleted over 2,000 accounts last quarter for posting fake content, Israel identified as major source
Not surprisingly, generative AI was used in the propaganda campaigns
Fake AirPods cases that feature a display screen are popping up all over the internet
Apple filed a patent for such a device a few years ago but so far hasn't delivered on it